Robin Hilton
Robin Hilton is a producer and co-host of the popular NPR Music show All Songs Considered.
Prior to joining NPR in 2000, Hilton co-founded Small Good Thing Productions, a non-profit production company for independent film, radio and music in Athens, Georgia.
Hilton lived and worked in Japan as an interpreter for the government, and taught English as a second language to junior high school students.
From 1989 to 1996, Hilton worked for NPR member stations KANU and WUGA as a senior producer and assistant news director and was a long-time contributing reporter to NPR's daily news programs All Things Considered and Morning Edition.
Hilton is also a multi-instrumentalist and composer. His original scores have appeared in work from National Geographic, Center Stage, and in films, including the documentary Open Secret.
Hilton also arranged and performed the theme for NPR's Weekend All Things Considered. You can hear more of his music here.
Along the way, Hilton worked as an emergency room orderly, a blackjack dealer and a fruitcake factory assembly lineman.
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As voters head to the polls today, we hear from artists whose music speaks to our current political and cultural moment. -
This week on the show, we hear from artists who find ways to celebrate life no matter how broken it may be. -
This week's essential mix has music from Thom Yorke's first-ever film score, a pulsing cover of Califone's "Funeral Singers" from Sylvan Esso, obliterated guitar rock from Squirrel Flower and more. -
The singer and guitarist fields comments from listeners about her music and talks about the ways her songs can be interpreted. -
Many of your favorite musicians of 2018 (so far) defy genres and expectations, from the idiosyncratic wonder of Superorganism to the stirring, swirling ballads of serpentwithfeet. -
This week's new mix features a profound Tiny Desk Contest entry, "dorky" electropop from Australian group Confidence Man, an intimate paean to different loves from Forth Wanderers and more. -
We asked and you voted: Here are the 100 best albums of the year, as selected by All Songs Considered listeners. -
Best known for his role with The Walkmen, as a solo artist he makes unabashedly joyful, sweetly innocent and playful music. And only he would arrive with a barbershop quartet. -
Billy Corgan, complicated frontman of The Smashing Pumpkins, has had a tumultuous decade-and-a-half. His visit to the Tiny Desk, with a string quartet backing him, was anything but.
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In this Guest DJ session with All Songs co-host Robin Hilton, Beck digs into his latest album, Colors, discusses its euphoric themes and shares some of the songs by other artists that informed it.
